Stoner and palpable delight in pushing

and palpable delight in pushing boundaries

and perhaps in all American history

a novel of unsettling power

girl power

"I will tell you a further mystery

Stoner and palpable delight in pushingDiscover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe. William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet